Olga was accused of watching two videos about police officers on the Belarus Brain telegram channel and leaving comments in their direction that the court considered offensive. The comments concerned a police major, senior district inspector, as well as a police major, district inspector of the Zhodino City Department of Internal Affairs. Olga fully admitted her guilt.
The woman's sentence was changed from detention to a written undertaking not to leave the place and was released in the courtroom.
Olga Kuranchik has a secondary specialized education, worked as a nurse at the Zhemchuzhina sanatorium, and has a dependent minor child.
Trial outcome 25.09.2023:
unknown years of restriction of freedom without direction
Convicted for participating in protests in 2020. Was found from photos from marches. Before the trial, she was free on bail in the amount of 3,700 rubles.
Trial outcome 22.09.2023:
2 years 3 months of restriction of freedom without direction.
The case file notes that the woman “violated public order, disobeyed the legal demands of government officials.” Valentina went out onto the roadway, was in the forefront of the protesters, the investigation claims, and thereby disrupted the work of public transport in the city of Zhlobin.
It should be noted that more than once I heard from witnesses at similar trials that the movement of buses in the city of Zhlobin was changed by the authorities themselves and no protesters interfered with them.
Trial outcome 20.09.2023:
1.5 years of restriction of freedom without direction.
Convicted on 08.08.2023 under administrative articles (19.1 and 19.11, part 2 - distribution of information products included in the republican list of extremist materials). After the administrative punishment, a criminal case was opened for participation in the 2020 protests.
Trial outcome 05.10.2023:
2.5 years of restriction of freedom without direction.
Convicted for participating in the "Peace and Independence March" on August 30, 2020. At the trial, Stanislav admitted guilt. According to Stanislav , he moved both along the roadway and on the sidewalk; on the way, someone from the crowd handed him a white-red-white flag, with which he took a photo on his mobile phone. That day he was wearing a black T-shirt with the emblem of the “Pahonia” coat of arms, which was subsequently discovered during a personal search of him. He left the white-red-white flag, which one of the protesters gave him during the protest march, to be kept at his place of residence.
Trial outcome 15.09.2023:
2.5 years of restriction of freedom without direction
Sergei Mitskovich was accused of writing a comment on March 20, 2022 with the word “cattle” and mentioning Gaidukevich and Voskresensky. The message was written under a video where Oleg Gaidukevich, Yuriy Voskresensky, Grigory Azaryonok and some other pro-government activists went to the Ukrainian embassy in Minsk on March 20, 2022 and held what they called “an event against Nazi power in Ukraine.”
In this case, from the beginning of August 2023, Sergei was kept under house arrest (until trial).
Trial outcome 04.09.2023:
2 years of restriction of freedom without direction.
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